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One of the goals of Californians who traveled to Paris for climate talks this week was to showcase green-energy businesses that are succeeding in the state. But on Monday it was the “coercive power” of government for which Gov. Jerry Brown was seeking credit.

Fortunately there is no real problem to solve. Unfortunately, they're going to create several with this nonsense. Here’s the good news. There is no climate crisis. You knew that of course but it sometimes helps to be reminded amid the apocalyptic nonsense we’re always hearing from elected officials and their news media servants. The past generation has seen a slight uptick in global temperatures - almost all of it occurring before the turn of the century - and none of this is the slightest bit unusual given the broader history of global temperature variances since the beginning of time. Global...

President Obama stepped onto the global stage in Copenhagen, but his lackluster speech failed to inspire delegates scrambling to salvage something from the global trade talks.

PARIS (AFP) – The draft of a negotiating text for a new pact on climate change survived its first hearing at UN talks on Monday, providing a boost on a road still strewn with many obstacles, delegates and officials said. Despite criticism from the United States and others, the document was "basically welcomed as a good starting point for the negotiations," said Michael Zammit Cutajar, who framed the text. The June 1-12 meeting in Bonn gathers a 192-country forum tasked with steering the world to a new treaty that will whip the threat from global warming. If all goes well,...